Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics

Edited by Sophie Grace Chappell

New essays on a central ethical question
Written by a team of distinguished philosophers

Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics

Edited by Sophie Grace Chappell

Description

What form, or forms, might ethical knowledge take? In particular, can ethical knowledge take the form either of moral theory, or of moral intuition? If it can, should it? These are central questions for ethics today, and they are the central questions for the philosophical essays collected in this volume. Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics draws together new work by leading experts in the field, in order to represent as many different perspectives on the discussion as possible. The volume is not built upon any kind of tidy consensus about what 'knowledge', 'theory', and 'intuition' mean. Rather, the idea is to explore as many as possible of the different things that knowledge, theory, and intuition could be in ethics.

Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics

Edited by Sophie Grace Chappell

Introduction, Sophie Grace Chappell
1. Intuition and genealogy, John Cottingham
2. James Lenman, James Lenman
3. Obvious intuitions, Mike Ridge and Sean McKeever
4. Should generalism be our regulative ideal?, Alan Thomas
5. Moral faith and moral reason, Sergio Tenenbaum
6. Forgetting the difference between right and wrong, Sarah McGrath
7. Factual mistakes, epistemological virtues and moral errors: a study in Augustine's Confessions, Catherine Rowett
8. Theory and intuition in a broken world, Tim Mulgan
9. Moral certainties, Sophie Grace Chappell
10. Self-evidence, theory, and anti-theory, Simon Kirchin
11. Literature, Moral Education, and Moral Philosophy, Edward Harcourt
Index

Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics

Edited by Sophie Grace Chappell

Author Information

Edited by Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University. She was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Faculty of Divinity in Edinburgh. She has previously taught in universities including Oxford, Manchester, and UEA. She has been a Visiting Professor in Vancouver, Oslo, Reykjavik, St Andrews, Adelaide, and Edinburgh. Since 2000 she has been Treasurer of the Mind Association, and Associate Editor and Reviews Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. Her books include Understanding Human Goods (Edinburgh University Press, 2003), Reading Plato's Theaetetus (Hackett, 2005), Ethics and Experience (Acumen, 2009), and Knowing What To Do (OUP, 2014). She has published poetry, including (on her website) a translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

Contributors:

Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University
John Cottingham, Heythrop College, London
James Lenman, University of Sheffield
Mike Ridge, University of Edinburgh
Sean McKeever, Davidson College
Alan Thomas, Tilburg University
Sergio Tenenbaum, University of Toronto
Sarah McGrath, Princeton University
Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia
Tim Mulgan, University of Auckland
Simon Kirchin, University of Kent
Edward Harcourt, Keble College, Oxford